Shooting USA vid / The Alfred Pease MS 6,5 rifle

[PerH]

The Fraser MS rifle made and used by Pease for much of his hunts over Africa .

The gunmaker Fraser was he a distant relative of Simon Fraser family with their rifle heritage?

 

[Hunter-Habib]

Daniel Fraser had also stocked a Mannlicher Schoenauer in 6.5x54mm for WDM Bell with a hollowed out stock, that weighed only 5 LB. Bell killed 12 bull elephant with it in one day, all with brain shots. But the rifle jamming caused him to lose a 13th elephant, at which point he gave it up.

 

[PerH]

Yes some of the bullets did not hold up from 6,5 . But it was also some split brass and pierce primers also he encountered with some ammo types . Which made him keep going back to the 7mm for quite some long marches